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Research carried out by U.K. government agency [Sport England](https://www.sportengland.org/media-centre/news/2015/january/12/launch-of-this-girl-can/) found that 75% of women _want_ to be more active. They _don’t_, CEO Jennie Price explained in a release, due to “a fear of judgement. Worries about being judged for being the wrong size, not fit enough and not skilled enough came up time and again.” And so Sport England launched a new kind of campaign, using real talk and real women to promote a healthy lifestyle. Cellulite and all. “I swim because I love my body. Not because I hate it.” > [](https://twitter.com/Sport%5FEngland/status/554972595809185792) “I’m slow but I’m lapping everyone on the couch.” > [](https://twitter.com/CosmopolitanUK/status/554968667717648384) “I jiggle, therefore I am.” > [](https://twitter.com/BBCSport/status/555015229156098049) The campaign serves to remind the world that women’s bodies are _supposed_ to move when they move. And that skinniness [does not](http://healthland.time.com/2012/09/05/can-you-be-fat-and-fit-or-thin-and-unhealthy/) always connote health. The women here might not be ripped from an Equinox ad, but after public cries that models in a 2012 campaign looked [unhealthily thin](http://www.blisstree.com/2012/01/05/beauty-shopping/new-equinox-ads-promote-unhealthy-thinness-and-degradation-of-women-not-fitness-828/), that might be a good thing. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3669876/this-girl-can-ad-sport-england/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3669876/this-girl-can-ad-sport-england/"},"headline":"'I Jiggle, Therefore I Am': This Empowering Ad Shows Healthy Women Come In All Sizes","datePublished":"2015-01-15T22:32:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:00.064Z","description":"\"This Girl Can\" celebrates active women in a refreshing way","url":"https://time.com/3669876/this-girl-can-ad-sport-england/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Living","Body Image","Ads"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaf6cce261d9b5fe5/69877a285f570f3d5ab14bb6/screen-shot-2015-01-15-at-2-03-53-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaf6cce261d9b5fe5/69877a285f570f3d5ab14bb6/screen-shot-2015-01-15-at-2-03-53-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2015-01-15 at 2.03.53 PM","caption":"","creditText":"YouTube","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3669876/this-girl-can-ad-sport-england/","name":"'I Jiggle, Therefore I Am': This Empowering Ad Shows Healthy Women Come In All Sizes"}}]}] ```